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Lab Film, Media Art and Popular Culture

The Lab “Film, Media Art and Popular Culture” is concerned with visual and audio-visual media, their aesthetics and history as well as with their transformation in the context of digitalisation and globalisation. A particular research focus lies on the specific forms and dispositives of film, media art and popular culture, their production, distribution, broadcasting, exhibition, mediation and appropriation together with their preservation and collection in archives. Thereby not only media production and media artworks are anaylized, but also their aesthetic experience through collective and individual use plus the discourses and cultural interactions that accompany them.

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New publication by Vesi Vuković: Yugoslav (Trans)national Memory on Rural Spaces
ZeMKI member Vesi Vuković recently published an article in “Iluminace – The Journal of Film Theory, History, and Aesthetics” titled „Yugoslav (Trans)national Memory on Rural Spaces: Short Documentary Films Girls Without Boy(friend)s Girls Without Boy(friend)s (1963) and The Best Husband The Best Husband (1968) by Woman Filmmaker Vera Jocić“.

5. September 2026

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ZeMKI Research Day 2026: Discussion on current projects from eleven labs
On the afternoon of 8 July 2026, members of ZeMKI gathered at Linzer Straße 4 for the ZeMKI Research Day 2026. This internal event format provides a forum for presenting ongoing projects from the eleven ZeMKI Labs, discussing methodological issues and bringing together perspectives across the boundaries of the individual Labs.

10. July 2026

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ZeMKI at Open Campus 2026
ZeMKI is taking part in the University of Bremen’s Open Campus 2026 today. Under the motto ‘Opening up worlds – sharing knowledge’, the university is offering insights into research, study programmes and academic projects on campus.

13. June 2026

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These are the ZeMKI Visiting Research Fellows of 2026
For 2026, the ZeMKI Steering Committee has selected seven international visiting scholars as part of the Visiting Research Fellowship program. Each fellow will spend at least four weeks collaborating with selected ZeMKI Labs.

17. February 2026

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Workshop: Yugoslav Women Film Workers and Their Films
A new workshop which is organized by ZeMKI members Dr. Vesi Vuković and Prof. Dr. Winfried Pauleit and also Prof. Dr. Sanja Bahn from the University of Essex focuses on Yugoslav women film workers, who are largely overlooked in the historical accounts of the cinema of the Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia (approximately from 1947 to 1991). It examines the work behind the camera, for instance of film directors, editors, and screenwriters. 

4. February 2026